The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-01

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whence Niagara may be best seen
Alright.
Close to the cataract, exactly at the
spot from whence in former days the
Table Rock used to project from the
land over the boiling cladron below.
there is now a shaft down which you
will descend to the level of the river,
and pass between the rock and the
torrent. This Table Rock broke away
from the cliff and fell. rs up the whole
course of the river tho seeding rocks
have split and fallen from time to time
through countless years. and will con.
tinue to do until the bed of the upper
lake is reached. You will decend this
shaft taking to yourself or not taking
to yourself suit Of oll-clothes. us you
may think best.
In the spot to which l allude the
visitor stands on broad safe path.
made of shingles, between the rock
over which the water rushes and the
rushing water. He will 60 in so far
that the spray rising back from the bed
of the torrent does not incommode him.
With this exception. the further he can
60 in the better; but circumstances will
cearly show him the spot to which he
should advance. Unless the water be
driven in by very strong wind. five
yards makes the difference between a
comparatively dry coat and an absolute
wet one. And then let him stand with
his back to the entrance, thus hiding
the last glimmer of the expiring day.
So standing he will look up among the
falling waters, or down into the deep
misty pit from which they reascend in
almost as palpable bulk. The rock
will be at his right hand, high and hard
and dark and straight, like the wall of
some huge cavern. such as children
enter in their dreams For the first
five minutes he will be looking but at
the waters of a cataract, AT the waters,
indeed. of such q cataract as we know
no other. and at their interior curves
which elsewhere we cannot see. But
by-and-by all this will change. He
will no longer be ON a shingly path
beneath a waterfall; but that feeling
of a cavern will grow upon him. of
cavern deep. below roaring seas. in
which the waves are there, though
they do not enter in upon him; or,
rather, not the waves, but the very
bowels of the ocean. He will feel as
though the floods surrounded him,
coming and going with their wild
sounds. and he will hardly recognize
that though among them he is not in
them. And they, as they fall with a
continual roar, not hurting the ear.
but musical withal. will seem to move
as the vast ocean waters may perhaps
move in their internal currents. He
will lose the sense of one continued
descent and think they are passing
round him in their appointed courses.
The broken spray that rises from the
depths below, rises so strongly. so paul
pably, SO rapidly, that the motion in
every direction will seem equal And.
as he looks on, strange colors will show
themselves through the mist; the shades
Of gray will become green or blue.
with ever and anon a flash of white;
and then. when some gust of wind
blows in with greater violence. the sea-
GRIT cavern will become all dark and
black. o. my friend, let there be no
one there to speak 10 thee then; not
even q brother. As you stand there
speak only to the waters.